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Authors, Scottish 20th century Biography Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930 Houdini, Harry 1874-1926 Literature and spiritualism History 19th century Margery 1888-1941 Spiritualism History 19th century Spiritualism United States History 20th century Spiritualists Biography Spiritualists United States Biography Women mediums United States BiographyFilter By Subjects
Authors, Scottish 20th century Biography Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930 Houdini, Harry 1874-1926 Literature and spiritualism History 19th century Margery 1888-1941 Spiritualism History 19th century Spiritualism United States History 20th century Spiritualists Biography Spiritualists United States Biography Women mediums United States BiographyBechtel, Stefan
Summary: "After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic...The movement's most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015